Not like you to be negative Paul, must have been the altitude.Anyone with experience of both able to compare it to the Bugs?
Black Canyon?!
Quote from: Paul B on September 06, 2016, 08:24:01 pmBlack Canyon?!Hell Yeah! Just had 2 days there, not half as sketchy as the reputation - I'd happily go back but maybe a month later when the south facing stuff I more bareable.Made it up a 5.11c thin hands pitch (the lightning bolt crack) in my broken-in TC Pros, with comfort - turns out they are the best of both worlds! Happy days!
Quote from: Fultonius on September 10, 2016, 06:59:06 pmQuote from: Paul B on September 06, 2016, 08:24:01 pmBlack Canyon?!Hell Yeah! Just had 2 days there, not half as sketchy as the reputation - I'd happily go back but maybe a month later when the south facing stuff I more bareable.Made it up a 5.11c thin hands pitch (the lightning bolt crack) in my broken-in TC Pros, with comfort - turns out they are the best of both worlds! Happy days!Would love to hear more info about the black canyon when you get a chance
The climbing is great! Featured gneis, but climbs more like granite than Hebrides gneiss. Grades see friendly, few chimneys/offwidths and the cracks climb quite well due to reasonably featured rock (when compared to yosemite/squamish). It's quite remote, no phone reception. Campsite is $15/night but the ranger let us doss in the van for free, I doubt this is common though. There's a guidebook in the ranger station (North rim) which they let you make copies of. Go, GO, GOOO!
Anyone wise to the potential within striking distance of Munich? Got a meeting there next month and looks like the easyjet schedule will force us to have a day spare...
Shorter, south facing, harder & more sustained, supposed to be a classic but way out of my league: Tschi-Tschi on the Martinswand in Innsbruck. There are plenty of other easier multipitch routes on the Martinswand but they’re rather slabby and samey.
There are other areas closer to Munich that have shorter multipitch routes on immaculate rock - Ross & Buchstein, Plankenstein, Leonhardstein -
Ross & Buchstein, Plankenstein, Leonhardstein -
Quote from: Fultonius on September 10, 2016, 06:59:06 pmQuote from: Paul B on September 06, 2016, 08:24:01 pmBlack Canyon?!Hell Yeah! Just had 2 days there, not half as sketchy as the reputation - I'd happily go back but maybe a month later when the south facing stuff I more bareable.Made it up a 5.11c thin hands pitch (the lightning bolt crack) in my broken-in TC Pros, with comfort - turns out they are the best of both worlds! Happy days!Glad you're liking the TC Pro's
punter around. Well. Question: Do I need a camalot #5 (new sizes) for Astroman?
If you're talking about The Rostrum, then no, there aren't any RPs as far I can remember from 3 years ago.If I remember rightly, there's an RP on the offwidth pitch. That's me casting my mind back 20+ years, so I may have got that wrong though. As JB says it's steady away anyway...(As an aside, my partner fell out of the bottom of the Harding Slot on Astroman and pulled his (red?) Camelot straight out of the slick crack).